Super cool!
I do wish there were much better algorithms for ascii art. The best manual ascii/ansi art humans produced during the peak of that scene is extremely far ahead of any algorithm I've seen.
Thanks for the kudos and the shared joy :) AMA, happy to answer any potential questions!
Playing around with that gave me a lot of joy. Would this have worked during the heyday of telnet servers? Or was hardware and connection speeds fast enough to have made this practical?
BTW braille patterns, I wrote a braille backend for Haskell Diagrams: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/diagrams-braille
Lets you also mix text and braille, although the positioning is a little fragile.
This reminded me of a quine by a member of the Ruby core team - Yusuke Endoh.
Spinning globe in the terminal!
I don't know how to read Braille. Does this rendering work at all to someone who knows how to read Braille by touch? Or is it more using the glyphs as a form of visual ASCII-like art?
I took a quick look online and it seems like actual tactile maps are using raised lines for the boundaries and Braille for text labels. e.g. https://www.aph.org/product/world-maps/
> Sorry, you reached a full server, please try again.
Retrying in couple of days, HN will release the hug by then
It's so weird that Hollywood has trained us to think that a TUI is much more hacky/bleeding-edge/pro than a GUI.
Back in the 80/90s the future was 3D GUI, today the future is retro.
All this to say, very cool project.
You can launch telnet in exaequOS.com if you do not have telnet installed. (I am the creator)
Open havoc terminal and type: telnet mapscii.me 23
Interesting. But I wonder how one could use this with a Braille line?
> Your connection timed out.
But I get to see the lovely logo!
Awesome! Thanks for spending time on this.
I love stuff like this!
This is amazing
cool
Anyone else also looking around for more tools like MapSCII, this site frequently updates with other TUI and CLI tools with handy and quick install instructions.
https://terminaltrove.com/
I can also see they have mapscii too which is great.
https://terminaltrove.com/mapscii/
There's also awesome-tuis as well which I also find very useful as well.
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis